hey, i was just thinking about getting the aluminum iMac soon after Leopard comes out andI was wondering, if you use Boot Camp to dual boot vista, how is the gaming? I know that it would have a 256mb video card but just curious as to how that goes. thanks
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hey, i was just thinking about getting the aluminum iMac soon after Leopard comes out andI was wondering, if you use Boot Camp to dual boot vista, how is the gaming? I know that it would have a 256mb video card but just curious as to how that goes. thanks
It works, but it isn't incredible. I've been able to run the Call Of Duty 4 demo on Vista at 1024x768 at a reasonable frame rate. This was sans anti-aliasing which really slows the crap out of the system.
Later today I'm planning on installing Half-Life 2 + EP1 + EP2 + TF2 + Portal which should run better seeing as it's optimised for ATi cards.
Call Of Duty 2 ran in full resolution at 1680x1050 silky smooth. But that's what you'd expect from an older game
So far I've only been playing Portal and Half-Life 2, both of which run perfectly well at 1680x1050 with all the settings turned up to max. Apart from the anti-aliasing which still slows everything down. I expect TF2, Episode 1 & Episode 2 will run a bit slower, but so far so good.
Also decided to buy the full version of Call Of Duty 4, which, like I mentioned above, runs okay in 1024x768 with anti-aliasing off. I'd guess it runs somewhere between 30-60 fps. It does tend to slow down heavily during some of the Russian missions at the end unfortunately.
Strange thing though - Call Of Duty 2 ran much worse under Vista than it did under Tiger. I have no idea why, but it ran extremely slowly at 1680x1050 whilst booted into Vista. I had to nudge it down quite a lot before it ran as smoothly as the demo did on Mac OS X 10.4.
Finally, there's the Unreal Tournament 3 demo which ran pretty much the same as Call Of Duty 4, again in 1024x768. I bumped up all the settings as far as they'd go and it was a blast. I might get the Mac version over the PC version just for fun.
I was also going to download the Crysis demo, but I considered this to be slightly suicidal, so I didn't bother in the end.
If you want to game go PC or get an Xbox360 if you still want a mac.
There's a Half Life2 fan site and last time I checked the webmaster tried unsuccessfully to get Half Life 2 running well on his mac. Here's the link if you want to ask: http://www.hlfallout.net/
It's almost gotten to the point you need a 8800GT or a console like the 360; the 360 is cheaper, but you have a good chance of the RROD.
It's almost gotten to the point you need a 8800GT or a console like the 360; the 360 is cheaper, but you have a good chance of the RROD.
If you're fine running games at low resolutions (like the consoles always are - they just hide it from you) then you don't need a 8800GT just yet.
It's a good buy though. So is the 3850.